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Easy Rider

A man went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere...

1969 · 1h 35m · R Adventure, Drama
Directed by Dennis Hopper

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Overview

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

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84%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Fonda and Hopper, it should by this time go without saying, give immense performances.

Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

A film important to and influential in the flower-power late '60s, Easy Rider now seems like a narcissistic hodgepodge of travelogue and passion play.

Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
Fresh

None of the forced violence, lawlessness, rapist, gratuitous speed aspects of the motorbike clan in this perceptive film.

Gene Moskowitz, Variety
Rotten

The film may be a relic now, but it is a fascinating souvenir -- particularly in its narcissism and fatalism -- of how the hippie movement thought of itself.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten

Hopper, Fonda and their friends went out into America looking for a movie and found instead a small, pious statement (upper case) about our society (upper case), which is sick (upper case). It's pretty but lower case cinema.

Vincent Canby, New York Times

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